Uli Hoeneß on Bayern's current form: "The coach has a big contribution to this current success. You can see that when the team and the coach are a unit, we can achieve a lot. In the summer, we were being described as bad transfer specialists; supposedly, we hadn't done anything and hadn't spent any money. And now we're 11 points ahead of Dortmund, so things have gone quite well" [@MagentaTV]
"We were ridiculed because the squad was supposedly too small. We deliberately kept the squad small and didn't bring in the many expensive players that were mainly demanded by the media. Otherwise there wouldn't be Lennart Karl or any young players in the first team. Our coach was willing [to integrate young players], even though he was sad because some transfers didn't work out, but he didn't complain. He rolled up his sleeves – and now we see the result"
Uli Hoeneß on Lennart Karl's Real Madrid statement: "What he said about Real Madrid is something any young boy would say. Michael Rummenigge also said something similar back in the day. Young players can say something like that. They just need to be careful not to overdo it. Otherwise it's not a problem at all"
Kompany je odigrao najvažniju ulogu oko mladih igrača. Da to nije napravio i nije ih krenuo koristiti te ostalo (opet) sve na riječima, ne znam kako bi taj kadar funkcionirao. To s njegovim prethodnicima nije bio slučaj, a klupska parola je bila zadnjih ohoho godina da ih uvodimo i koristimo, kupujemo iz inozemstva, no sve su bile prazne riječi do Aleksandra Pavlovića koji je zapravo probio led.
Ipak, prije svega hvala Bogu što su nam igrači bili skoro čitavu polusezonu izuzev kraja u čudesnoj tjelesnoj formi bez ljetnog odmora te ostali skoro svi zdravi osim Itoa, Daviesa i Jamala.
Lennart Karl je ispao ključna figura br. 1 na krilu gdje smo dobili širinu, a Gnabry na 10-tki je postao igrač više u tankom kadru jer je prethodno bio skoro igrač manje.
Presretni smo čitavu dosadašnju sezonu jer se drugačije i igra i diše, rezultate okrećemo i kada stvari ne idu prema planu i klize u poraz(Köln, Union, Leipzig...), no ljeto je bilo ljeto, jedna priča tada dok je sezona druga priča i pokazala je sve suprotno od toga razmišljanja.
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